Hi Katy (and calmseeker)
I think you mention somewhere that you pass your course well. For six months a few years ago I worked full time at a universities admissions centre, assessing whether students' first degrees were good enough to get them into postgraduate courses. Well believe me, I was amazed that by far the majority of students passed their first degree (whether BA or BSc or whatever) at barely Pass level. Many were dotted with modified passes and fails. A degree that had a few Credits was great - one that had some High Distinctions was a standout. I was amazed at how badly many students got through their courses - and yet were applying for higher studies again.
I'm telling you this to give you confidence in yourself - trust me, many students pass very, very poorly. So if you do any better than that, you are doing very well indeed.
And just to make you chuckle - we required all students to provide a full transcript of their academic record. One young woman came in distraught and very angry because we had refused her entry to the postgraduate course she wanted to study, because despite our repeated requests, she never produced her academic transcript - just a copy of her actual degree (we had to assess every subject studied). Her outraged claim was that as she had studied at Cambridge University, her academic record should not be required - it was Cambridge after all!
To which one of us smartly replied, "What a pity you went to Cambridge. Now if it had only been Oxford, we could have let you in".
So have confidence in yourself - good students rarely do badly, they are too hard on themselves to permit it to happen.
And calmseeker, give it a go, do!
Hope this helps Katy!
